Licensing Oracle Workloads on AWS

Oracle licensing is a major factor organisations need to consider when making any change to their Oracle environments. It involves an evaluation of complex rules, policies and expensive assets weighed up against considerations around the options for new environments and migration strategies for getting there. This whitepaper focuses on the key considerations, challenges and opportunities when licensing Oracle database workloads in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. With an understanding of the latest vendor policies and your own contracts and product requirements, licensing should not be a blocker to migrating workloads to your chosen environment.